Narrative Unbound

Re-Visioning William Blake's "The Four Zoas"

• Author(s): Donald Ault,
• Publisher: Barrytown Limited
• Pages: 544
• ISBN_10: 1886449759
  ISBN_13: 9781886449756
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric , Literary Criticism / Poetry , Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ,

Description:... This first full-scale interpretation of Blake's most complex poetic prophecy, The Four Zoas, argues that the poem's famous difficulty is intrinsic to the poet's transformative narrative strategies. Already highly influential in Blake studies, Ault's book is a line-by-line guide to the poem and an inquiry into a core issue of contemporary poetics: how do altered processes of reading restructure consciousness?